Title
To authorize and direct the City Auditor to appropriate and pre-encumber $33,000.00 from the Public Safety Initiative Fund; to authorize and direct the Director of Finance and Management on behalf of the Division of Fire to expend $33,000.00 from the Public Safety Initiative Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($33,000.00)
Explanation
BACKGROUND:
Need: The Fire Division is in need to purchase carboxyhemoglobin detectors and CPR cardiac support pumps for use by Columbus Fire EMS personnel; this legislation is to authorize and direct the City Auditor to appropriate and pre-encumber $33,000.00 from the Public Safety Initiative Fund. This ordinance also authorizes and directs the Director of Finance and Management on behalf of the Division of Fire to expend $33,000.00 from the Public Safety Initiative Fund at a future date. Use of these funds has been discussed and approved by City Council for the purchase of this equipment.
Bid Information: N/A ~ this ordinance is only to pre-encumber funding; funds for said EMS supplies will be expended only after a competitive bidding process has taken place.
Contract Compliance: N/A
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is requested to make funding immediately available to procure said EMS supplies.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Budgeted Amount: Funds exist within the Public Safety Initiative Fund for this purchase.
Body
WHEREAS, the Fire Division is in need to purchase carboxyhemoglobin detectors and CPR cardiac support pumps for use by EMS personnel, and
WHEREAS, it is now necessary to pre-encumber funds for said EMS supplies that will be competitively bid at a later time, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Safety, Division of Fire in that it is necessary to pre-encumber funds for the aforementioned reasons for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNC...
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